So I think I figured out something that may be a huge game changer in the gaming industry. TES VI has taken more than a decade to even be a thing. We got an announcement a few years ago about TES VI, but really nothing since. At that time they said TES VI would be in production after Starfield release. Another odd thing they said was that the technology needed to create TES VI was not quite ready yet. I am unsure as to when they said this last bit. I think before they mentioned Starfield release. What is this tech?

I think to understand what this tech is you have to go back to the roots of TES. One of their early games was called Daggerfall. I think this was TES II. The next one was TES III Morrowind. Then TES IV Oblivion. Finally TES V Skyrim. What has been happening on each release? The world of Daggerfall was huge, it was also generated content. That was the only way to go to that scale at that time. Then Morrowind came along and was big, but no where near Daggerfall big. Oblivion came along and decent size, but I think it was still smaller than Morrowind. I think similar with Skyrim. The worlds were getting more detailed, but due to shear manpower it became expensive to fill these large worlds.

I think you have probably figured out where I was going with this. What is the missing tech TES series wanted for large worlds? I think AI is the next big step for generating large worlds like this. From generating textures, terrain, models, cities, forests, etc. Obviously there will be procedural gen mixed in with this.

People keep wondering why TES VI is taking so long. I think Bethesda wanted to go big again on its worlds. But at the scale they wanted to do it would take way too much manpower to create all the assets for the game under any kind of budget. TES V has made them a shit ton of money. So maybe they have the wiggle room to do something truly groundbreaking with TES VI.

Anyway, that is my guess. They were waiting for the AI tools to be available to go big on their open worlds.

A 5-minute tutorial to register a fucking timesheet in your old-ass corporate shit tool: https://vimeo.com/1045331789/.... And I kid you not you need to convert worked hours to days so if you worked 6 hours write 0.75. Also it needs to be submitted 5-10 days in advance of the end of the month. If you are 1 hour late they will spam you and your manager, like WTF

This corporate behemoth of an IT consulting company I do (sub)contracting via is really stretching how draconian its timesheet policies can be. This is only one of the 4 timesheets I need to manually sync every month and coincidentally care the least about.

Every year they keep adding extra dumb rules that supposedly help managing their records. The moral of the story is I might quit my job for the first time due to the intermediate company's timesheets policies.

The biggest issue with Orms is that they lie

Emailed a few recruiters last week. More or less immediately started getting a load of casino spam.

Clearly this is just a coincidence and that reputation for being a sleazy bunch of pimps is entirely undeserved.

It’s the end I uninstall VSCode. Visually messing up with my indentation was its last mistake.

python libraries don't belong in Linux

idk where this stupid python-futures library came from but it just broke all the stupid python-only libraries I got. unfortunately no alternatives to them. evidently if I just remove python-futures and reinstall everything it broke it all works. bruh please

God I hate python

it's also very inefficient and these libraries take up so much CPU for no reason. they don't even do much but idle too high. python. not even once.

Day 69 of "learning C#" or "this isn't C++":
Spent an hour maybe trying to figure out why I can't see Trace/Debug messages in the Debug output in WPF app. I have been doing a lot of testing in a Console app and Console.Writeline does what I need for testing and understanding how it works.

Today I am working a WPF app. I am using Trace/Debug.Writline and I get nada. Read up online and it "should" be working. I am compiling for Debug. I think, do I gotta actually run as Debug session to get output? Well, um, actually fucking yes. I know I can get console output if I want by changing app type/option or some shit. Its a group project so I don't want to mess with that for now.

Fuck you C#, WPF, visual studio! Whoever the fuck thought that was good default. I mean it probably is a good default performance wise. Fuck you anyway. lol

How to be an ignorant a**hole 101. Go to a meeting room. Pump up your meeting volume. Leave the door open so the whole floor can hear your meeting and you can diminish everyone's focus time. In case anyone closes the door, just open it again.

My grandparents were both killed and ran over by tanks on Tiananmen Square in 1989. Good times.

I keep thinking back to that drill thing that the Americans believe in

"if you wait to feel to do it you'll never do it"

and I was curious about that advice. maybe it's right. but now that I'm sick and have brain issues I know that there's no point in doing anything unless you have your health. everything I spent years nerding out about just fell out of my brain. your health is the multiplier to everything else. the bedrock that makes everything else possible. everything you learn is only maintained if you're healthy, and you lose it all if that health ever fails you. what happened to me

and low-mood is often the symptom of brain issues cropping in; inflammation, a failing immune system. so I think I should've taken note of that instead of powering through things not thinking twice about it

Starving myself to death challenge, day 9, here I go!

I often think of how words are made, how they relate to other words, sometimes I discover interesting relations and etymologies.

Like the word ASSISTANCE. ASS-IS-T[A|E]N[S|C]E. And sure enough we need it most when we are frustrated and our asses are tense.

Coincidence? Idk. But I'll never see this word the same again.
Neither will you.

Ur welcome

Panadol, where have you been all my life?

His vagina
Her penis

I started to work in a company as a Wordpress developer, where they made me technical tests even with React (with which I have no problem) and when they explain me about the stack they told me: “You must install XAMPP on MacOS” and deal with their Apache, .htaccess, etc. crap. Then I came across some spaghetti code. I didn't last a week. The developer joke came true.

Cleaning my system. Learned something new (do a vacuum on your journalctl logs).

Any way: biggest applications on my system in the screenshot.

Can I have an applause for google-cloud-cli for being bigger than open office?

That google-cloud-cli thing is not some advanced supertool that you installed for convenience, it's actually to get API access to certain google services and is really required. Install this thing, and magically - no idea how (there is no ENV key introduced, so it executes an app to resolve credentials or smth?) - your python applications are authenticated some how after logging in using a web interface.
- it's big
- not normal api key usage
- requires a web browser
- user of API key needs to know credentials of the owner of the key, so forget installing by someone else.

Google is crazy. Why would you build smth so different than any other API supplier. Why reinvent the wheel in a bad way. How can so much of it be client side.

Only positive thing is - that it works immediately after being surprised that it was really such big app that allows you API access.

It's impossible that such big system is safer than just a simple API key.

Also, if it provides interface and is requirement for other google libs it's just a freaking SDK.

LinkedIn is mostly cringe but not always...

no more updates for me?

This is how eldritch beings get you these days.

No more whispers of immortality,or to bring back a loved one.

Just straight up ultra fast broadband.

Java ist auch eine Insel - best doorstopper ever